A blog for Small Business Consultants and the vendors who serve them. It contains Opinions on business success, News in the SMB consulting space, and Information on what I'm up to.All material Copyright (c) 2006-2020 by Karl W. Palachuk unless otherwise noted.

Anybody and everybody who is associated with the SMB Consulting Community and the Small Business Server community can participate. Create a T-Shirt. Make it interesting and clever so that others will want to purchase it. (And let's see if we can reduce the number of white t-shirts in the world.)

It costs nothing to post your stuff. The site sponsor (great little book) makes nothing from this. But you can!

If you user group, or just you personally, want put together a t-shirt and make it available to the rest of the universe, here's your opportunity.

The goal is simply to create a place where we can support each other and have an endless supply of clothes to wear.

The site has almost no rules. It's just a clearing house for your t-shirt sales.

It does contain links to some places (such as cafepress) that have a hosted solution to merchandise sales.

Remember: the site's free. So, if you request to have a shirt or two listed, it may take a few days as the volunteer web dude gets around to it.

ALSO: Note that we hope to get more shirts posted as a result of this announcement, so you'll want to check back from time to time.

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Hot Books for Managed Services

This four-volume set is the definitive guide to Managed Services. From the front office to the tech department, we cover it all. Every computer consultant, every managed service provider, every technical consulting company - every successful business - needs SOPs!

When you document your processes and procedures, you design a way for your company to have repeatable success. And as you fine-tune those processes and procedures, you become more successful, more efficient, and more profitable. The way you do everything is your brand.

How to Deliver Successful, Profitable Projects on Time with Your Small Business Clients

Small Business project management is simply not as complicated as project management in the enterprise. But small business projects have the same challenges as enterprise projects: They need to achieve their goals effectively, on time, and within budget.

They also face the same primary challenge – staying inside the scope of the project!

This great little book provides a simple process project planning and management process that is easy to learn and easy to teach to your employees, fellow technicians, and sub-contractors. You’ll learn to track any project, explain all the stages to clients and employees, and verify that everything is completed on time and under budget.

The authors show you a great technique for making sure that scope creep is a thing of the past! Make every project a successful and profitable project!

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I make every attempt to honestly state what I believe and enjoy the freedom of posting whatever I feel like on this blog. This is a big complicated world and I have many interconnected personal and professional relationships.

I may in some way receive money or other benefits from any of the products, services, or companies mentioned in this blog as a direct or indirect result of my actions on and off this blog. Any experience mentioned here is just my experience and I have no knowledge about whether it represents a typical experience with any products, services, or companies mentioned.

Whenever it is possible to have both an honest and a misleading interpretation of my statements, please assume honesty. Thanks. - karlp